Walter did yo realy go Ohhhh?

[Walter Bright]

PatrickD wrote:
> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/rhinos-and-tigers.html
> 
> <Steve Yegge> He told me the other day, [talking about] one of my
> blog rants, that he didn't agree with the point that I'd made that
> virtual machines are "obvious". You know? I mean, of course you use a
> virtual machine!
> 
> But he's a compiler dude, and he says they're a sham, they're a
> farce, "I don't get it!" And so I explained it [my viewpoint] to him,
> and he went: Ohhhhhhh. </Steve Yegge>
> 


Steve and I did talk about VMs, and I did say that I thought they were a 
sham. Maybe I did say Ohhhhh, but that was more of understanding his 
point of view than agreeing with it.

Steve also says in his blog that the advantage of VMs is language 
interoperability. I don't agree, since all you need for interoperability 
is an ABI. For compiled languages, the C ABI serves just fine, and as 
long as each language has a way to get at the C ABI, you have language 
interoperability.

Case in point - D!